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I currently have a 722 and 922 Dvr Setup. I called Dish this evening to upgrade my 722 to a Hopper with 1 Joey. To my surprise I was told that I had to upgrade both receivers to Hoppers and I had to buy a joey for each. I only have 3 Tv's and I like the 922 with dual OTA receivers.

This seems like crap. I want to keep the 922 as my main receiver and add the hopper to the basement theater and weight room....

Has anyone been able to merge a Hopper with a current non-hopper dvr system?

It's either all Hopper or no Hopper... with the exception that they have allowed some Hopper accounts to have 211 receivers.

If you like your 922 you should probably stay with the 922... though that said, now that the Hopper has OTA capability... the only thing you lose by trading the 922 for a Hopper would be a Hopper can only have 1 OTA tuner... but it has 3 SAT tuners... so depending on how you use/record TV, it still can be a win w/ the PTAT feature.

I currently have a 722 and 922 Dvr Setup. I called Dish this evening to upgrade my 722 to a Hopper with 1 Joey. To my surprise I was told that I had to upgrade both receivers to Hoppers and I had to buy a joey for each. I only have 3 Tv's and I like the 922 with dual OTA receivers.

This seems like crap. I want to keep the 922 as my main receiver and add the hopper to the basement theater and weight room....

Has anyone been able to merge a Hopper with a current non-hopper dvr system?

and is there a way around this issue?

The forum is right as usual. The only receivers allowed on an account with a Hopper are 211k/211/411 series, and that is only when the 211 is in an RV or pairs with a tailgater mobile satellite.

I have 3 tv's I would like setup, my toughts were to have a hopper on 2 of them and 1 Joey for the 3rd TV. The problem is Dish will only sell me 2 hoppers with 2 Joeys. If the Hoppers don't talk to each other can I use the 2 joeys on 1 hopper to feed the same TV that has a Hopper installed? I would use a secondary input for that joey?